wednesday, September 10, 1997
The University Daily Kansan
Section A·Page 7
KU students share knowledge through school tutoring service
By Gwen Olson
golfon@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
Students at the University of Kansas are spreading their knowledge to schools in Lawrence.
The Youth Educational Services program is a part of the University's Career and Employment Services. The program allows selected KU students to work as tutors in classes of at-risk schools in Lawrence schools.
Ann Hartley, associate director of career and employment services, said the program placed 35 KU students in schools last year, and she expected about 30 tutors for the fall semester.
"We used to have about twice that amount, but our funding was cut by Student Senate," she said. "We now have at least three applicants to each position."
The program, which has been at the University for about 10 years, is open to students enrolled in at least six hours with a cumulative gradepoint average of 2.0 or higher, Hartley said. She also said that although there were many applications already in for the fall, students still could apply for positions that will be available during the spring semester.
Rheana Brauer, Y.E.S. student coordinator, said tutors were paid $5.15 an hour and work five to 10 hours each week.
"I think it does a world of good for the students."
Carol Pilant
Y. E.S. liaison
"What the students do is not only serve as tutors but as mentors," said Brauer, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, sophomore. "It's a really nice way to get KU students involved in the community and shows the students that college kids care about them and what they are doing."
Drauer said tutors in the program
worked with a class or with individual students during after-school study programs.
"It's mostly one-on-one in the elementary schools, but the junior high and high schools use study clubs where students come in to get help with homework," she said.
Sixteen Lawrence schools are involved with the program this year, and each school decides with whom the tutors will work and what they will do.
"The program has been here for at least five or six years," said Carol Pilant, librarian and Y.E.S. liaison at Central Junior High School. "I think it does a world of good for the students."
Seizures of illegal drugs reach record high
Methamphetamine now more available, say Nebraska police
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Seizures of methamphetamine by the Nebraska State Patrol have increased nearly 13 times more than last year's record numbers.
"To call this a problem of epidemic proportions is to understate the case," patrol superintendent
Col. Ron Tussing said yesterday.
Through July, state patrol officers have seized 279 pounds of methamphetamine, compared with nearly 22 pounds during all of last year. The patrol has at least doubled its seizure of methamphetamine every year since 1992. "Clearly this drug has surpassed cocaine in popularity in the Midwest," Tussing said.
The state patrol seized 148 pounds of cocaine through July, compared with 560 pounds in the same period last year. The 1996 figures included
one seizure of 500 pounds.
Also worrisome, Tussing said, was that methamphetamine seizures are not due to one large take. There have been many seizures of 5, 10 or 20 pounds.
Also, undercover investigators report finding methamphetamine available by the pound, not just in grams as had been the case.
A methamphetamine conference that included federal drug czar Barry McCaffrey and U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno was held in Omaha in May. Participants from
around the nation used use of methamphetamine, highly addictive and inexpensive, was growing across the country.
Other Nebraska State Patrol drug seizures this year included:
— At least 16 gallons of the hallucinogen PCP in Grand Island seized last month. The old record was set last year in North Platte, where 14 gallons of PCP were seized.
— More than two- and three-quarter tons of marijuana through July, nearly as much as was seized in all of 1996.
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